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Here's a new chapter of this fic. I know some people was asking me to change this fic to the True Blood category but there's a reason for not do it. It's my own version of this five season and the rest of chapters are all mine so I prefer to have it in Books category 'cause I like more the books and my Eric and Sookie are more like the ones in the books.

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Always There

Sookie POV

"I love you, Sookie Stackhouse." He said no more.

"I love you too, Bill Compton." I was so in love with him. It was a whole new sensation for me and I didn't want it to disappear.

After all this time feeling like a freak, waiting for the right man to come to me and finally was at my side. Yes, he wasn't a man, he was a vampire but you can't choose who you fall in love with. It happens and you can't even find an explanation.

I opened my eyes and wiped the tears that I didn't know I had spilled with the back of my hand.

What was happening to me? Why didn't I stop dreaming about Bill?

"Are you okay?" Eric asked me when he woke next to me.

I nodded silently hoping that in the darkness of the bedroom he wasn't able to see my tears. I knew he would want to talk about it but I was not ready and I wasn't in the mood to chat.

"Gotta go to the bathroom." I quickly got out of bed and didn't look back at any time. I just wanted to be alone, to think about how much things had changed and the fact that my life was a complete disaster. It was times like these when I desperately wished my Gran to be alive to ask her for advice. She would know what to do, she'd tell me to follow my heart and try to do things in the best possible way but the truth was that I was alone and now everything was up to me.

Washed my face with cold water and I felt a chill running through my body. At least I'd get to clear my mind but I knew sooner or later I would have to make a painful decision and I frankly doubted to be ready for it.

Eric was knocking on the door and I wondered how long I was inside. Since I was living with him it was like I'd lost track of time, especially since I spent days sleeping and I woke up a few minutes before he did.

"Just a minute." I muttered knowing he had heard me perfectly. I took a last glance at me in the mirror, trying to feel myself – that wasn't easy by the way – and I finally opened the door. Eric was in front of me, looking at me and waiting for me to say something but I didn't really know what to say, I had no idea what he wanted to hear so I started walking back to the bedroom.

I could feel his footsteps behind mine and I was sure if I had suddenly stopped he would have done it as well but against me. I knew he was worried but we both were since Bill disappeared. It would only be a matter of time he appeared to chase and kill us but I refused to live looking over my shoulder every second.

"Sookie, we need to talk." I was giving him my back, staring at the open closet and pretending to decide what to wear.

"About what?" I muttered without turning around.

He sighed and I knew that wasn't a good sign. Every time Eric had bad news or something that he knew it'd bother me he sighed and this time was a heavy sigh.

"Whatever you want to say, just say it, alright? I dunno how long I'll be able to stand this tension." I snapped and felt very guilty about it. Eric had done nothing but protect me and me and my sudden swings were not putting it easy for him.

"I've been thinking about the other night at the bar you seemed to be much more relaxed, you were yourself again…"

"Yeah, I felt good but I knew it wouldn't last long." I was still giving him my back but Eric was right. Going to Fangtasia had relaxed me. "It was for a few hours but I felt better."

"Yeah… So I've been thinking things over the past few days and I think it'd be a good idea for us to take a break."

"A break?" I asked turning around and looking into his eyes for the first time that night. What did a vampire mean by taking a break? Time meant nothing to them so it could have been months or years. "Eric, what are you talking about?"

He sat at the edge of the bed and looked me straight in the eye. "I'm talking about going back to normal, Sookie. You're not the only one affected by what's happening and I feel that we need time to reflex and understand what's going on, don't you think?" I nodded without really understanding what all this was coming. "Listen, during the time we were in New Orleans I realized that Pam is more than ready to take care of the bar or any problem. Besides, she has Tara now and the relationship between them is much better. I know Pam won't disappointment me if I tell her that I need to go for a while…"

"Go?" I asked alarmed. "Eric, do you want to go? Where?" Suddenly I felt scared and angry 'cause he wanted to leave no more. Eric Northman, at least the Eric Northman I knew wasn't able to disappear without trace but maybe this situation was becoming too much for him.

"I'm not leaving, Sookie." And I relaxed visibly.

"Then, why…? Why are we talking about that, Eric? What did you mean by taking a break?"

"I want you to come with me."

"Eric, I'm sorry, but I don't understand anything. What are you talking about?"

"A trip." And I raised my eyebrows in surprise. "I'm talking about a trip, Sookie. We need to rest, to get away from all the madness and to think clearly and I at least can't do it here. I'm not running away, Sookie, I want to make that perfectly clear but I don't think it's a good idea to stay in Shreveport where Bill would be able to find us in less than two seconds."

"And why hasn't he done already?" I asked. "Tell me, if he's so powerful, why are we still alive?" It was an idea that was driving me insane. "Eric, I think he's playing with us."

"What do you mean?"

"Exactly that. Don't you see it? It's like he's waiting for us to believe that we're safe to attack us. I dunno, it's a feeling I have and I can't get it out of my head. Bilith won't leave us alone." And I sat next to him on the bed.

We sat in silence until Eric spoke. "Bilith?"

"Yeah." And I couldn't help laughing. "You know, it's a combination between Bill and Lilith, so I can talk about both of them using only a name." Eric laughed with me while we stayed sitting there.

"It's pretty clever, Sookie, really. I like it." I couldn't believe after all the stress we were laughing like idiots for a stupid name. It was nice to forget the problems for a while.

"About that trip…" I wasn't sure what I was thinking but the idea sounded very appetizing. The farthest I had travelled in my whole life was to New Orleans when I was at school but the rest of trips, like Dallas, were related to vampire issues.

Eric was grinning but I didn't want either of us to become too hopeful. Going now with all what was happening seemed really crazy, like we were trying to escape from the problems, but a part of me was dying to have a little time to being a normal girl again.

"Sookie, just say the words and we'll be on a plane tonight."

I knew Eric Northman was capable of that and much more. I had seen it with my own eyes but I never thought it was possible that I ended up trusting him in the way I had for the past few months.

"Y'know, I believe I've never taken holidays." And two hours later in the same clothes we were wearing were on a private Anubis plane towards an unknown place Eric hadn't wanted to reveal.

"You could have let me change clothes at least, or grab some things. I have nothing for the bathroom, no clothes to change into and…"

"We'll buy everything we need when we get there, don't worry." I rolled my eyes 'cause nothing seemed to be a problem for Eric Northman. Perhaps packing was not something he was used to but he made sure to grab all necessary papers and my passport – the never I didn't know I had – and we left in his car to a private hangar.

We were the only passengers on the plane and surrounded by luxuries. I had never been on a plane like this but I was enjoying the experience.

"Where are we going?" It was the fifth or sixth time I had asked him the same question since we left home but Eric simply smiled at me and said it was a surprise. "You know, I really don't like surprises 'cause most of them have been very unpleasant and…"

"This will be special, I assure you."

How was able to make me feel so good with just a few words?

"Y'know, this jacket isn't very thick, what if it's cold in the place we're going?" I tried to get a clue but it had no effect. "Don't worry, my lover, you'll be fine. Both of us will be." He was so sure that for the time in the last month I was convinced by his words.

"I feel good." I said after a few minutes of silence and Eric looked at me with a slight smile. "I dunno if it's because I'm on a plane to an unknown place and I'm with you by my side, because I'm completely insane or I just really needed holidays," I added with a chuckle, "but for the first time in more time I would like to acknowledge I feel good. I feel great."

And I wasn't sure what came over me at that moment but I couldn't help getting up from the seat and scream with all my strength. "I FEEL FUCKING GOOD!" I sat down again and kissed Eric passionately. It was an advantage to be alone because before realizing I was sitting on his lap and kissing him like there was no tomorrow.

I was breathless when I pulled my lips away from his but I hadn't lost the smile at any moment. "You're so fucking sexy I can't believe I'm sitting on you, kissing you and wishing to find a bed or a large and strong enough surface to fuck you nonstop for hours or until my body can take. One way or another."

"I support the proposal." And with no more we kept kissing like teens with the huge hormonal rush of history. At least I was desperate and I needed all my control not to rip his clothes off and start devouring him right there.

I had always feared planes and the first time I was in one was when I was accompanying Eric, Bill and Jessica to Dallas. I didn't know what was going to happen but I had a feeling there would be trouble. There were always problems with vampires but during those days in the state of Texas, things changed between my vampire boyfriend Bill and me. I met a side of Eric completely unknown and it broke my heart to see how much he suffered when he had to say goodbye to his maker knowing that he wouldn't see him ever again. Eric wanted to fight, he needed to convince him that the world had changed and a vampire as powerful as Godric should continue existing, but unfortunately Godric had decided long before Eric could convince him otherwise.

Godric had evolved – or at least that's what he thought – to a point where he wasn't able to keep thinking and acting like a vampire anymore.

During the time – brief – I met him I realized he wasn't like the rest of his race. I didn't see him feeding on human at any time, even from those who wanted to kill him, but the most shocking was that he saved me several times without having to. He did it when that horrible man nearly rape me at the Fellowship of the Sun church and again when Lorena – Bill's maker who was dead now – tried to do the same at Godric's house.

With him I felt good, like I could trust him completely and I hardly knew him but when he died I couldn't help crying and comforting Eric for a loss that even I was feeling in the deepest of my heart.

"Are you all right, lover?" Eric asked me when he put his hands on either side of my face and looked into my eyes.

"Yeah," I whispered, but the truth was that I wasn't and Eric knew. "I was thinking about Dallas and Godric." I added without thinking if it'd be too painful for Eric to talk on all that. "I can hardly believe a year has passed since then 'cause I still think it was a couple of months ago."

"Me too." Eric murmured. "I miss him and I haven't stopped thinking on him all along. He was everything to me and when he appeared to me that night in New Orleans I knew what we were doing was wrong. I let myself go for the nest and drank that blood knowing would cause me problems." He looked at me like he was trying to apologize but there was nothing to forgive. "I wanted to believe that I was stronger than that, all of them, but I let myself go and I was about to lose what I love most."

A lonely tear slipped from my eye and was sliding down my cheek when I heard Eric's words.

"He…" I started speaking but it was as if the words were stuck in my throat. "He asked me…Godric asked me to look after you." The idea seemed absurd then because I knew Eric Northman was quite capable of taking care of himself and would never have needed my help, but I was beginning to understand now what Godric meant. "I don't know why but I think he was right." Eric raised an eyebrow as he often did when something surprised him. "Somehow he knew sooner or later we'd end up together and he wanted to make sure that I knew it." I chuckled 'cause suddenly everything made sense. "It is as if he had been able to see the future and he was so convinced when he told me…" I shook my head because I couldn't believe after everything we had been through together all this was happening between us. Of course there had always been sexual tension between Eric and me but what happened among us in the last months had been pretty different.

"Do you think he was right?" He asked me suddenly while I kept remembering that dawn on the roof of the hotel during the last moments of Godric as vampire. "I've always trusted on Godric, he taught me everything and although there were things I refused to believe I knew deep down that he was always right."

"I dunno, I didn't know him as well as you, but look at us now. We are together on a plane to…wherever and we're making out like teenagers. That makes me think Godric was right but we were both too stubborn to realize what we actually felt. I don't pretend to judge you or excuse my behaviour at some point but I try to understand that everything has changed so quickly." Eric nodded and I could see in his face that he was as confused as me. "And sometimes I wonder if you hadn't lost your memory, would be us like this now?"

"I've asked me the same question many times but the truth is that I don't know what to say." And he shrugged. "Maybe sooner or later one of us would have given up." And I arched my eyebrow then. "Are you sure, Eric? We are very stubborn."

"You're more stubborn than me."

"Really?" And suddenly the sadness was gone and had been replaced by happiness.

"Any clue?" I asked as I kissed his neck, remembering it was one of his weaknesses. "Where are we going?"

"No way." And he gently bit my chin.

I continued sitting on his lap, thinking about a million things at once and trying to relax at the same time. It was nighttime so I couldn't see anything out the window and I knew to insist would be useless 'cause Eric wouldn't say a word.

"We've arrived." Eric said no more and a second later I felt the plane descending until it touched down and stopped completely a few minutes later.

"Welcome to Hawaii."

Eric POV

The look on Sookie's face when I told her that we were in Hawaii left no room for doubt. She was thrilled with the idea although it was night and she could barely see the sights.

"Oh my God… Hawaii? Eric, it's great!"

When we got off the plane a car was waiting for us but in the distance I thought I recognized something I thought we had left behind. Maybe it was just an ilusion but I was sure I had seen Bill.

"Eric, what's up?" Sookie asked when I didn't move. I did not want to worry her but I knew Sookie realized because Sookie looked in the same direction but didn't say a word.

Could it be true that he could find us anywhere? Maybe it was just my imagination playing tricks, I didn't know, but I shook my head slightly and looked back at Sookie.

"Shall we?" And I pointed to the car.

"Eric, I know you're hiding something from me, what is it?" Sookie's tenacity was admirable but it'd end up bringing her problems. "It's nothing, Sookie. Do not worry."

"I don't believe you." And she put both hands on either side of her hips. "Something has worried you and you were looking towards there," she added, pointing to the same place as before, "and something caught your attention."

"Was it Bill?" She asked in a whisper.

"It doesn't matter, my lover." And I wanted to assure her that all was well. "We know that sooner or later he will appear, it's a fact, but we'll be ready." Sookie looked unconvinced but I didn't want our holidays to start with stress. "I won't let him hurt you, Sookie, and I don't care what I have to do to protect you because I will without thinking twice." I could see in her eyes that she was about to burst into tears but was neither the place nor the time for that. We had the right to rest and enjoy and I wouldn't let anything, not even Bill Compton or Bilith as Sookie had called it, to ruin this special time for us.

"I want to forget, Eric." She said no more.

"Forget?" Suddenly a feeling of insecurity and panic came over me. Did she want to forget everything? Forget me?

"Sometimes I wish I could be glamoured to be able to forget all the horrible things I've seen." I couldn't help feeling guilty because thanks to me she had seen things that she shouldn't have ever seen. "But then I look at you and I realize that it'd be a mistake 'cause I could never forget what's between us. No matter if a vampire was able to glamour me to forget something because what I feel for you would be always in my heart and sooner or later I'd realize and go after you."

"You're a special girl, Sookie Stackhouse."

Pam POV

"What do you mean with you don't know where he is?" I thought Eric had taken care of his sister but it seemed Nora always returned.

"You heard me." I said no more.

"Where is he?" We were in Eric's office while I was working on some things and Nora appeared suddenly that night as if a ghost was chasing her. "He has closed the bond because I can't feel him so you have to tell where my brother is."

"No, I have nothing to tell you, Nora," and I got up from the chair while I was glaring at her. "And you know why?" She said nothing waiting for an explanation. "During the hundred years I've been with Eric I ever heard of you. I knew the special connection he had with his maker because Godric was a vampire in which Eric could trust but you're not. You betrayed your brother, your own blood for the Authority and we were all about to die for what you did. Are you so surprised that Eric hasn't told you that he was leaving?"

Nora was furious but I was enjoying the moment. I would never be able to betray my maker but what Nora did was enough for Eric not fully trust her again. Especially after Nora left very clear that Sookie was just a distraction for Eric.

"Bill will be looking for us. We are his targets and we should stay together but suddenly Eric disappears with that human and nobody seems to care the least. Do you realize how dangerous that is?"

I rolled my eyes and ignored her but I knew it wasn't going to work. At least not for long.

"We are wasting time here, we should be drawing a plan together and not hanging out with humans." When Eric said Nora had betrayed the Authority I imagined that she would have done the same with her Sanguinistas beliefs but it wasn't like that. The fact that Lilith no longer existed – or did in Compton's body – hadn't gotten Nora to forget her visceral hatred for humans. "I really care for Eric even if you believe otherwise."

"What do you care?" I got up quickly from the chair again and stood before her with fangs completely extended.

"He's my brother!" Nora replied showing her fangs. I would have loved to rip them off but I didn't need more problems. "But you are just a former prostitute who was turned a vampire out of pity. Surely you begged and cried until he was disgusted and had no choice but to do it."

I hissed and was about to attack her when the office door opened and Jessica appeared interrupting us.

"What?" I snapped without even looking at her.

"The humans…" she whispered and stammered at the same time.

"What's up with the humans?" I was in no mood for bullshit.

"Humans are beginning to become impatient 'cause Eric's not here and they want to see a vampire sitting on the throne." She didn't look at either of us at any moment and got back to the bar before I could say another word.

"I have to take care of everything because Eric trusts me, so you better start showing respect for everything around you. If it hadn't for Eric you wouldn't be here and I'd be happy to kick your Sanguinista ass out of this bar and the city." And with that I left.

The bar was packed, as usual since Eric had returned, and the fangbangers seemed to be desperate, insinuating themselves to all vampires who made their appearances at the bar and wanted to try the experience of being bitten.

Pathetic.

I looked at Tara and saw her bartending a few humans who seemed fascinated with her. After all she had proved to be a great vampire and seeing her at the Authority just because she decided to rescue me made me realize my progeny was more special than I imagined.

I walked down the stage and went to the bar to make sure there were no problems and I needed to talk to Tara, but of course she wasn't alone. Jessica Hamby, Bill Compton's progeny, was living now at Fangtasia's basement because Eric decided to "adopt" her and she had become a responsibility for us all.

"When is the sister leaving? I'm getting tired of seeing her hanging around here like she fucking owns the place." If anything I could be sure of Tara was her honesty. "I thought she was going to look for her own place and stop bothering us."

"It's not our decision, it's Eric's. And until Eric returns and kicks her out of here all we can do is stand her. Is that clear?"

"Yeah." She murmured but I couldn't agree more with her.

"I'll call Eric in a couple of days to know what he's doing and if he's taken a decision about Nora, but until then we can do nothing. Don't talk to her, don't let her to provoke you and everything will be fine." But Nora had the awesome ability to cause problems just by opening her mouth.

"Eric will take care of her."

Jessica POV

When I became a vampire I thought my life had changed as radically as possible but Bill turned me and took care of me and taught me everything a vampire needed to know, but now things had changed and I was alone, I didn't know what to do and I couldn't believe Bill had disappeared as Sookie and Eric said.

I was living in Fangtasia's basement now, feeding on synthetic blood and from fangbangers who followed me into the alley. I spent the nights looking around, trying to understand why my life as vampire had become a nightmare. My maker abandoned me and if it hadn't been for Eric and Pam I didn't know what had become of me.

"Another one?" Tara asked me when I finished the bottle of blood.

"No, thanks." I pulled the bottle away and stared at the fangbangers who were dancing and flirting to the vampires at the bar. A couple of them approached me but I wasn't in the mood to feed on fresh blood.

"You should forget him," Tara said and I turned to face her.

"Excuse me?"

"Compton, your maker." And she shrugged. "You should forget him 'cause I don't think he's gonna back, and if he did…guess none of us would like to meet him." I knew Bill had changed, I realized when I saw him in the Authority but a part of me wanted to keep alive the hope that he would be the same. It was hard – almost impossible – but what could I do? Give up? There had to be some way to get him back to what he was, that he recovered his sense and everything became normal again.

Bill was a good vampire, at least better than others I had known, but Pam was right when she told me about the nest syndrome. Obviously Bill was affected 'cause every word out of his mouth was completely insane.

"You risked yourself to save Pam, why shouldn't I do the same? Why do you want me to forget him?"

"I don't care if you forget him or not," she said chuckling, "but the reality is very different, Jessica. I rescued Pam 'cause I knew she wouldn't be fooled by all that crap they talked about and also because the Authority took her when she protected me. But Bill? C'mon…even you have to admit he's not the same, he has changed, and he has been convinced and if he drank that blood and he's now a monster the chances of being the vampire you met are more than remote."

"He's all I have left, Tara. I had a family before Bill turned me into what I am now but when I saw them I realized that I'm alone 'cause they only saw me like a monster." I was pissed off because so many things that it was increasingly difficult to focus in only one of them. "You have Pam, Eric and Sookie, but me? Who do I have?"

"I'm all alone."

Sookie POV

"Yes, yes! Don't stop, please… Don't stop! OH GOD, ERIC!" I was in a hotel suite in Hawaii fucking nonstop with my vampire and I couldn't feel better. It was like a release, something I had needed for a long time but I had refused to accept for stupid reasons unimportant now.

Each of his thrusts was like a ray of hope in a dark and dangerous road, but at that moment, in that bed and with Eric over me there was no fear, pain or suffering.

Only pleasure.

"Do it, Sookie, do it for me." He hissed with fangs extended but didn't bite me at any time.

"AHHHHHH!" I yelled with all my strength knowing the occupants of nearby rooms would have heard me perfectly, but I couldn't care less.

With one last powerful movement Eric came inside me and it was like being at heaven.

"Oh God…it's been…it's been…" Trying to think, speak and breath at the same time after sex with a Viking god was not easy, but I couldn't stop laughing and grinning.

"I think we both needed it." Eric murmured when he laid down beside me on the big bed we had with the most amazing views I had seen in my whole life. I could see the beach and the dark sky full of stars while the gentle breeze and the sound of the sea turned to be the most relaxing environment possible.

"Yeah, it was like a release, something I wanted but I had been putting off for too long. Including that night with Alcide…" Eric frowned and I wanted to kick myself for talking about that. "Sorry, it's no time to talk 'bout that."

"Would you have done it?" He asked me looking into my eyes.

"Do what?"

"Would you have had sex with him?" Did he really think it was the best time to ask me that question?

"Eric, I…"

"Just yes or no. I don't need further explanation."

I breathed deeply trying to think of what I was gonna say. Alcide was very attractive, there was no doubt 'bout that, but things between us didn't seem to work even though there was chemistry. "If you want to be honest I will."

"Please." He said softly.

"I was pretty bad, we had just returned from the Authority, I didn't know what was going on in Bon Temps and when I got back everyone blamed me for Tara and I was lonely, very lonely. That same day I had a car accident on my way home, I have no idea what happened, and now that I think about I realize that I have no car, but that doesn't matter now. See, when I got home and I realized that I was alone and you two had gone to take care of your own business I didn't know what to do and I started getting bottles and drink without stopping." I wasn't trying to excuse my behaviour but it was like I felt.

"If you want to know if I have slept with Alcide…the truth is I wouldn't know what to answer 'cause I don't know what I'd have done. He started kissing me and I guess I got myself go but…well, you know the rest of the story." I threw up over Alcide's shoes and an hour later we were looking for Russell Edgington in an abandoned psychiatric hospital.

"That's enough for me."

Yeah, it was enough for him and the next thing I could remember was that we were making love all night until I opened my eyes and saw Eric sleeping next to me.

"Sookie." I heard my name and I saw Bill.

"What the hell is going on?" I muttered to myself as I was paralyzed by fear.

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